Feel Free to share any articles or weblinks that would be of interest to our project this year:
(To upload a file, first type the title of the article and the author onto this page. Then, click on the 'Insert Images and Files' button and upload the file from your computer hard drive to wikispaces. Then, select the text you want to link to (usually the title) and click on the 'Insert Link' icon and choose 'Links to a file').
Books:
Literature Circles through technology by Terence Cavanaugh - A great resource to enhance your language arts program with technology.
This books offers a variety of ideas like: ebooks, blog sites, blog software, wiki farms, online literature circles, digital logs, journals and discussions as well as how to use them.
Just an example of one of our texts of the weeks. I do a different lesson with it each day (Conventions, Organization, Summarizing, Main Idea...etc). Well done!
2 new pages to add to your primary calendar. 1 is using dimes and pennies to indicate the date ( or could be # of days in school.) The $ is on infinite cloner so it just slides onto the bank. The other coins are in the gallery if y ou want to use them too. For the second page, use the dice for 10's and 1's to generate a number. Spin the spinner to see what you have to do. The 100's chart is there for help. The spinner text can be easily edited by clicking on the double arrow - you can change the # of sections and their colours too. Enjoy! Cheryl
Water Cycle and Seasons Lesson for Grade 1/2. I thought I would share this lesson developed for my Grade 1/2 class. It's mostly about the Water Cycle, but I added some fun stuff about the Seasons for the Grade 1 students. Before using this lesson, we did some characteristics of water demonstrations as well as some separate experiments on evaporation, condensation, precipitation, and collection. This was a lesson to pull all of that together. I took the blank Water Cycle, mixed it up and copied it. The students cut and paste the mixed up water cycle back in order on construction paper. Hope it works for you. Mette
Grade 7 and 8 Math lessons - some can be modified for the junior grades
- with a link to a Alberta Learn website explaining how the diameter always goes "3 and a bit" times into the circumference of a circle. There is a video and an interactive activity for the kinesthetic learners. (I had problems showing the video at school, worked great at home, so this could be an at-home activity for the students) Area of a Trapezoid
This lesson is on measuring angles using a protractor, classifying angles, looking at the relationships in parrallel lines with a transversal. Slides can be adapted to grade 7 and 8 Math. The first few slides were taken and edited from a presentation that I saw by Ben Hazzard and the others I created using notebook software and Geometer's Sketchpad. Probability
Feel Free to share any articles or weblinks that would be of interest to our project this year:
(To upload a file, first type the title of the article and the author onto this page. Then, click on the 'Insert Images and Files' button and upload the file from your computer hard drive to wikispaces. Then, select the text you want to link to (usually the title) and click on the 'Insert Link' icon and choose 'Links to a file').
Articles:
ETFO Lesson Study.pdf by Brian Harrison, York Region Local
Lesson Study - SEDL article.pdf by Joanna Gilmore and Ashley Hawkins
New features of Notebook 10 Smartboard
Books:
Literature Circles through technology by Terence Cavanaugh - A great resource to enhance your language arts program with technology.
This books offers a variety of ideas like: ebooks, blog sites, blog software, wiki farms, online literature circles, digital logs, journals and discussions as well as how to use them.
GRAPHIC ORGANIZER—WEBSITES
Smart Ideas—Lesson Activities to use with Smart Ideas softwarehttp://www.edcompass.smarttech.com/ec/en-US/Learning+Resources/
Lesson+Activities/SMART+Ideas+Activities/Canada/default.htm
Smart Ideas—Clipart
http://www.smarttech.com/products/smartideas/clipart/index.asp
North Central Regional Educational Laboratory
http://www.ncrel.org/sdrs/areas/issues/students/learning/lr1grorg.htm
Teachnology—The Web Portal for Educators—Graphic Organizers
http://www.teach-nology.com/worksheets/graphic
Scholastic—Teachers—Graphic Organizers
http://teacher.scholastic.com/lessonplans/graphicorg/
Instructional Strategies Online
http://olc.spsd.sk.ca/DE/PD/instr/strats/graphicorganizers/
"A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words” - From Now On—Jamie McKenzie
http://www.fno.org/oct97/picture.html
Graphic Organizer Rubric
http://www.uwstout.edu/soe/profdev/inspirationrubric.html
The Graphic Organizer
http://www.graphic.org/goindex.html
Graphic Organizers that Support Specific Thinking Skills
http://www.somers.k12.ny.us/intranet/skills/thinkmaps.html
Graphic Organizers—Houghton Mifflin
http://www.eduplace.com/kids/hme/k_5/graphorg/
Graphic Organizers—ProTeacher
http://www.proteacher.com/020067.shtml
Big6 and Higher Ed: Information Seeking Strategies and Library Instruction
http://www.big6.com/showenewsarticle.php?id=508
Inspiration/Kidspiration
http://www.inspiration.com
Links:
http://del.icio.us/cpopofski Chris Popofski's links to useful Smartboard resources
http://classhomework.com This is a free website to post your homework on. You do not need to create anything, just a few small details.
This way the parents and students can be reminded of homework and upcoming assignments. You are also able to upload to your site if you wish. More features are available when you subscribe of course.
keepvid.galleryitem Here are the instructions for getting YouTube videos for Notebook, and done in a notebook file so that you can see how tabs work. Just click and drag it onto a page in the Notebook.
http://www.radio-canada.ca/jeunesse/rdijunior/index.shtml A good French site for Junior+/Intermediate/Senior students. I have my grade 5's view a news broadcast. The news anchor does speak fast but the kids get use to it and are comprehending more each time.
http://www.tfo.org/education/enseignants/toutes_les_ressources/immersion/index.cfm?categorie=enseignants&subs=3 French immersion TFO Resources.
http://www.cubpack81.com/images/carve_pumpkin.swf A fun Halloween pumpkin carving activity that would help students improve fine motor skills on the SMART Board.
www.eworkshop.on.ca Eworkshop is an online resource developed for elementary teachers by the Ontario Ministry of Education and TFO. It includes modules on Literacy and Numeracy with videos of teachers in action, activity sheets, lesson plans and more.
http://smarttech.com/trainingcenter/tutorials.asp Two minute tutorials to watch about Smartboard basics
http://www.explorelearning.com/ Gizmos...Online simulations that power inquiry and understanding.
nhttp://www.popularfront.com/snowdays/ The snow will be here soon. Improve your students' fine motor skills as they create snowflakes on the SMART Board.
http://enlvm.usu.edu/ma/nav/doc/intro.jsp Online Math Manipulatives.....way cool!
http://education.smarttech.com/ste/en-US/News and research/EdCompass/Subscribe.htm Sign up to receive a montly newsletter from EDCompass....includes latest information and web links for SMART Boards.
http://www.tmerc.ca/index.php Trent University Math Education Research Collaborative - Using Lesson Study to research effective whiteboard use in Mathematics
http://smarttech.com/trainingcenter/online/index.asp Get online training here with a live instructor!
http://smarttech.com/trainingcenter/tutorials.asp Watch two minute video tutorials on things to do with the Smartboard
http://educ.queensu.ca/prof/190-191/resources/index.shtml - great resource on MANY things!http://sixrevisions.com/tools/15-free-tools-for-web-based-collaboration/ - These websites might be helpful for teams to work together on lesson plans without being in the same location.
http://blogs.wsd1.org/iwb/ - variety lessons created by the Winnipeg School Division
Smartboard Lessons:
sept 08 primary calendar.notebook Primary Calendar, Weather and Counting Pages from Cheryl Wallace
Tension and Characterization.notebook The Iron Man Story by Ted Hughes
Scary pictures.notebook You will need to edit these pages to suit your needs but the scary sounds are attached....BOO!
GRAPHERS.EXE - You can download and install this Ministry Licensed software that works great on the smartboard.
http://www.longwood.k12.ny.us/longsmart.html Tons of smartboard lessons!
making connections.notebook
Q chart Pink Shirt .notebook Main idea and Questioning
newsreport.notebook
creating pull tabs.notebook A couple of how-to pages on making image and text pull tabs
Manual for SMART Notebook By Steph Scott.notebook A really great training manual
Grade 7 and 8 Math lessons - some can be modified for the junior grades
CircumferenceArea of a Trapezoid
Angles
Probability